NURS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Codependency, Shyness, Social Anxiety Disorder
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The social dimension of health: ability to interact with other people, people of al ages are able to act better in a supportive environment. Listening: opening yourself up to others, helps with understanding people, agreeable, but assertive, accepting your rights and others" right when you disagree. How men and women communicate: boys, boys make less eye contact. Interested in moving objects more than faces: become less facially expressive as they get older, adult men, speak more often, longer periods of time, women, speak more in private than in large group settings, have better eye contact. Nonverbal communication: facial expressions, posture, tone of voice, cultural differences may create conflict. Forming relationships: emotional closeness, declines 15% with the absence of face to face contact. Loneliness: single parents and elderly are most affected. Shyness and social anxiety disorder: types of shyness, fearfully shyness, self-consciously shyness, social anxiety disorder = social phobia.
